Copies of President Barack Obama's budget plan for fiscal year 2014 are distributed Wednesday to Senate staff on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Written by

Aamer Madhani
and Susan Davis

President Barack Obama unveiled his budget Wednesday, offering a fiscal plan that even before its release was eliciting groans from his conservative opponents as well as his backers on the left.

Obama's 2014 budget offered details for cutting the deficit by $1.8 trillion over the next decade, while also calling for billions of dollars in new spending to repair the country's infrastructure and bolster education.

In a statement from the White House Rose Garden shortly before release of the document, Obama touted his plan as "a fiscally responsible blueprint for middle-class jobs and ...